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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Reading Tonight: Wake It Up

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:22 AM

There's a lot going on tonight, including a lecture on African Americans in the west, a fictionalized account of a Native American "journey through a land of ghosts and shadows," two poetry readings (including one new translation of ancient poems, and much more.

University Book Store hosts Barry Foy. Foy's book The Devil's Food Dictionary is subtitled A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely of Lies. This is a good idea, and it looks like a lot of fun.

Brad Matsen reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Jacques Cousteau: Sea King is a biography with an awesome title. And Nomi Prins reads at Town Hall from It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. This is a book about how everything got all fucked up.

But the book-related event of the night has to be the Bailey-Coy wake. David Schmader wrote very eloquently about the importance of Bailey/Coy in this week's book section. Here's the first explosion of genius in his story:

Bailey/Coy's visionary move was situating its perfect little gay bookstore in the center of a fully functioning regular old bookstore—a layout choice that was simultaneously in-your-face (the GLBT section had its NSFW visual elements) and all-inclusive, presenting homosexuality as both a proud subculture and just another component of life.

It's a great story. I recommend you read the whole thing, and that you go to Bailey/Coy tonight to say goodbye.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.

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Gross. Who cares about events in Seattle? I'm so above this.

Posted by Mr. Poe on December 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM

Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid.

Posted by Mr. Poe on December 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM

damn it, Paul, the Devil's food dictionary is not an ebook. I would love to buy it. I know the obvious answer is go to Bailey/Coy and buy it, but I dont read hard copy books that much anymore. which is probably why they are closing.

I suck. but i still love my eBook

Posted by Womyn2me $http://http:\\www.shelleyandlaura.com$ on December 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM